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...Electric Shock. In California, the U.S. Department of Justice named General Electric, Westinghouse and eight smaller electric companies in civil and criminal indictments. The charge: violating the antitrust laws by fixing prices of electrical equipment in the Far West...
Sinister Summer. In this atmosphere, half sickening and half magical, the events of the summer continue to shock the boy's senses like the bluejay and the red ball. At first Joel misses his aunt in New Orleans. But the sinister fascinations of Skully's Landing increase, centering on the tomboy, Idabel, who lives up the road, and on Cousin Randolph, who drinks sherry, calls him "darling" and holds his hand...
...next morning he hastily called a press conference to deny that he had any intention of resigning. But that afternoon he got a shock. Georgia's mild-mannered Senator Walter F. George, one of the committee's most influential Democrats, delivered...
...Shock of Battle. According to Fletcher Pratt, Peleliu was the Marines' hardest battle. None of them was easy, though he calls the assault on Tinian "perfection." Pratt, one of the best of the civilian war analysts, wrote The Marines' War at the Marine Corps' request, but on three conditions, all granted: that he have full access to official Marine files and captured Japanese records; permission to interview eyewitnesses; complete freedom of opinion. The result is a fine service history written with clarity and intelligence, one that many Marines will welcome as an authoritative corrective to their...
Gospodin Wallace. In schoolrooms, happy moppets chalked up such spontaneous slogans as: "Let's Be Shock Brigadiers in Education and in Work." "Now there is no more persecution, or hatred, or exploitation," said a "typical" Serb; "[but] why is it that your country and mine can't get along?" "What we cannot understand," said another, "is why your Gospodin Wallace . . . does not have the big majority of the American public with...